." >> stephanie: now, he made this division clearer between eric cantor and i don't know, the tea partiers and they're a mess. and then right after that, the hurricane sandy thing comes up and you've got peter king and all of the northeast republicans disembal lowing boehner along with chris christie. it is a spectacle. >> it is. that's one of the other fun side effects of this is he totally exacerbated the war that the republican party has to have in the wake of the election. you know, somebody who tweeted this weekend, i can't remember who it was which blogger it was who said he can't help but thinking that if republicans really wanted to have a say in who the defense secretary is going to be, they probably should have run a better candidate for president. >> stephanie: exactly. what do you think? obviously republicans saying oh, gee, this will come as a shock but we'll be against something the president is for. they're saying he will have a tough confirmation. what do you think? >> they're going to put up a show and vote for him. that's all this has to be. because again that's the smart